Drawing on their own experiences as children and now as parents, the artist duo Yaniya Mikhalina & Joen Vedel engage with childhood as a distinct political condition rather than merely a developmental stage. In their exhibition at UKS, childhood unfolds restlessly within the home, the institution and the public sphere as a myriad of overlapping, parallel, and contradictory temporal movements: a vast durational terrain marked by dead ends, projections, fantasies, accidents and a gradually developing sense of orientation.

Conceived as a total installation in the form of a labyrinth, the exhibition unfolds as an intimate constellation of works and structures encompassing sculpture, photography, scribbles, sound and video, alongside objects borrowed from various Norwegian archives.

Before We Remember is part of the year-long programme Lessons in Love.

https://www.uks.no/archive/lessons-in-love-new-commission-joen-vedel-and-yaniya-mikhalina/